Word: voting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate. What ended the filibuster about anti-lynching-which had served its purpose of keeping the Wagner Van Nuys Anti-Lynching Bill from reaching a vote -was the Pope-McGill Farm Bill, giving the Secretary of Agriculture power to set up crop quotas for wheat, corn, cotton, rice and tobacco, establish "ever-normal granaries by buying surpluses in fat years." Unfortunately for its proponents, when the Farm Bill which Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith's Agriculture Committee had been wrestling with for a week finally reached the floor, the tone of that body's proceedings was not greatly...
Vandenberg: "That is a very noble sentiment to which I might subscribe. I should also say that a member of the Senate can scarcely vote intelligently upon this bill when he does not know what he is authorizing except 'such sums as are necessary.' As are necessary for what? . . . What sums are necessary? Is it a billion or two billion dollars...
...since rules permit adjournment for no more than three days in a row. Confident in his formula for attracting attention, Illinois' Church objected again but this time Sam Rayburn was too quick for him. By re-framing his proposal as a formal motion to recess, which requires a vote and cannot be defeated by a single objector, he got the House away to dinner and a three-day respite from Illinois' Church. On Monday, when the House reconvened, Agriculture Committee Chairman Marvin Jones brought up his Farm Bill. This meant that the House at last really had some...
Chinese Ambassador Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo, who had urged the Great Powers to take "concerted action of moral, material, financial and economic character," was obliged to join in casting China's vote last week for A Report-the conference's sole achievement. Even A Report was the result of heated wrangling, with Ambassador Davis among those who fought vainly to get it entitled A Report to the Governments Here Represented. "There is no sense in making a report at all!" declared Italy's Count, and cast the only dissenting vote against A Report...
Accrument from this money, subject to recall by vote of the Council, will go towards additional scholarships which may be needed in future years...